I just encountered a situation where two packages exported the same function ulp, one not in Base (not yet). Each package dispatches ulp over its own package-realized and exported struct type. There is never any real unclarity about which of the two module.ulp(x::module.struct) is appropriate. It…

Just the use when an exporting module exports both a function (not in Base) and a struct and that function is to dispatch on that exported struct … that is all it does in module 1. In module 2 there is a different struct (with a different name) and the same the function, there defined to dispatch o…

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mauro3 November 20, 2018, 8:35am 2

I think you are referring to this Function name conflict: ADL / function merging?.

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